title: Optimal diabetes care--can we afford it?: evidence-based diabetes care could be highly cost effective.
abstract: Management of diabetes is expensive and set to get costlier. Managing the condition and it's devastating complications imposing a huge societal and economic toll on healthcare systems worldwide. While many interventions to reduce complications are available, a number of interventions do not have a strong basis in evidence, and lack cost effectiveness. In a time of economic austerity, and unprecedented pressure to reduce costs of health care in the UK, are there ways improving care, without driving up cost?
authors.affiliation: 7th Floor, John Harrison House, The Royal London Hospital, Whitechapel, London E1 1BB, UK. Tahseen.Chowdhury@bartshealth.nhs.uk.
authors.forename: T A
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Chowdhury
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bennett-Richards
mesh_terms: D015190:Blood Glucose Self-Monitoring / Q000191:economics; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000517:prevention & control; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003924:Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2 / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000191:economics*; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D008403:Mass Screening / Q000458:organization & administration; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011209:Power, Psychological; D040242:Risk Reduction Behavior; D016540:Smoking Cessation; D059039:Standard of Care